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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.

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I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with

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Everything desires not like but unlike: for example, the dry desires the moist, the cold the hot, the bitter the sweet, the sharp the blunt, the void the full, the full the void, and so of all other things; for the opposite is the food of the opposite, whereas like receives like receives nothing from like.

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They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies.

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And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance that we judge well.

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No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

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It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

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Socrates said that, from above, the Earth looks like one of those twelve-patched leathern balls.

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The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour, and to leave none to your successors, because you have neither money nor reputation of your own, is alike base and dishonourable.

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Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics.

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Philosophy is the highest music.

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He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.

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Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.

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Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . . For this is the way of happiness.

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You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls.

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The one who learns and learns and doesn't practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants.

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The measure of a man is what he does with power.

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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

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Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.

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The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.

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